Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #10 in Turin, Italy

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Number of sights 14 sights
Distance 10.1 km
Ascend 392 m
Descend 398 m

Experience Turin in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in TurinIndividual Sights in Turin

Sight 1: Parco del Valentino

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Parco del ValentinoFulvio Spada from Torino, Italy / CC BY-SA 2.0

Parco del Valentino is a popular public park in Turin, Italy. It is located along the west bank of the Po river. It covers an area of 500,000m², which makes it Turin's second largest park . This park has been nominated “The best Italian park” after a selection among the fifteen best Italian parks.

Wikipedia: Parco del Valentino (EN)

519 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Orto Botanico di Torino

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The Orto Botanico dell'Università di Torino is a botanical garden and arboretum operated by the Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale of the University of Turin. It is located in the Parco del Valentino along the Po River, at Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli, Turin, Italy, and open weekends and holidays during the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.

Wikipedia: Orto Botanico dell'Università di Torino (EN), Website

1021 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione

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The Church of the Immaculate Conception is a Roman Catholic church in Turin, Italy, located in the San Salvario district.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione (Via Nizza, Torino) (IT)

270 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Sacro Cuore di Maria

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The Church of the Sacred Heart of Mary is a neo-Gothic church in Turin, Italy, located in the San Salvario district. Designed and built by the architect Carlo Ceppi in 1898, it was destroyed during the bombings of 28 November 1942 and 12 August 1943 and rebuilt in the fifties of the twentieth century.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Sacro Cuore di Maria (Torino) (IT)

912 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 5: Tempio Valdese

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The Waldensian Temple of Turin is a Waldensian place of worship in the city of Turin located in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 23.

Wikipedia: Tempio Valdese (Torino) (IT)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista

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The church of St. John the Evangelist is one of the churches that St. John Bosco had built in Turin in the nineteenth century; it is located in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II at no. 13, in the block between Via Madama Cristina and Via Ormea, in the desired vicinity of the Waldensian Temple.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista (Torino) (IT)

1262 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 7: Piazza Vittorio Veneto

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Piazza Vittorio Veneto, also known as Piazza Vittorio, is a city square in Turin, Italy, which takes its name from the Battle of Vittorio Veneto in 1918.

Wikipedia: Piazza Vittorio Veneto, Turin (EN)

474 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 8: Chiesa della Gran Madre di Dio

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Chiesa della Gran Madre di Dio

The church of the Gran Madre di Dio (Great Mother of God) is a Neoclassic-style church dedicated to Mary, Mother of God, on the western bank of the Po River, facing the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele I leading into Piazza Vittorio Veneto, Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy.

Wikipedia: Gran Madre di Dio, Turin (EN)

652 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 9: Monte dei Cappuccini

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Monte dei Cappuccini is a hill of 325 meters above sea level that rises in the city of Turin, about 200 meters from the right bank of the Po, in the Borgo Po district. It is very close to the historic center, near the Vittorio Emanuele I Bridge, which gives access to Piazza Vittorio Veneto. On it, stands the convent and the late-Renaissance church, Mannerist, and with baroque interiors of Santa Maria al Monte dei Cappuccini entrusted to the Capuchin friars, hence the name.

Wikipedia: Monte dei Cappuccini (IT)

70 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Museo Nazionale della Montagna Duca degli Abruzzi

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Museo Nazionale della Montagna Duca degli Abruzzi

The National Mountain Museum "Duca degli Abruzzi" is a museum in Turin, Italy. It is home to and a founding member of the International Alliance for Mountain Film (IAMF), which brings together the world's major mountain film festivals, as well as the International Mountain Museums Alliance (IMMA).

Wikipedia: Museo nazionale della montagna (IT), Website

1415 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 11: Villa della Regina

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The Villa della Regina is a palace in the city of Turin, Piedmont, Italy. It was originally built by the House of Savoy in the 17th century.

Wikipedia: Villa della Regina (EN), Website

1781 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 12: Parrocchia ortodossa San Massimo

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The Church of the Holy Redeemer is a religious building located in the foothills of Turin, in the Madonna del Pilone district. It originally housed the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and was built in the period between 1893 and 1897 in a late-eclectic style by the architect Giuseppe Gallo. Since 2001 it has been granted to the Orthodox community of Turin and is dedicated to St. Maximus, the first bishop of the Savoy capital, and is dependent on the Patriarchate of Moscow. The seat of the local eparchy is in Paris, the titular see of the diocese of Chersonesus of Europe.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore (Torino) (IT), Website

421 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Alfa Teatro

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Alfa Teatro

Alfa Teatro is a theatre in Turin, Italy.

Wikipedia: Alfa Teatro (IT)

1091 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa della Madonna del Pilone

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The church of the Madonna del Pilone is a seventeenth-century church in Turin, Italy.

Wikipedia: Madonna del Pilone, Turin (EN)

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